Handle.



PATENTED MAY 29, 1906.

C. KOPF.

HANDLE.

APPLICATION FILED FEB.28. 1905.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

Specification of Letterslatent.

Patented May 29,1906.

. Application filed February 28, 1905. Serial No. 247,660.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES KOPF, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New J er+ sey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Handles; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

My invention relates to improvements in handles for bags, valises, and the like.

The object of the invention is to provide a device consisting of two end members connected by a wire or other analogous means adapted to be formed into any desirable or imaginable shape, then to be covered by leather or similar material, which when finished produces a handle for bags, valises, and the like of extraordinary rigidity and stifiness.

A further object of m invention is to provide a handle which shall be strong and durable, simple and inexpensive in construction, one in which the filling owing to the construction of my handle may consist of paper, leather scraps, or the like, and one in which the leather or material used will not ride upon the Wire and gather or form wrinkles at the middle of the same.

Another object of my invention is to provide a handle the construction of which per-- mits the same to be folded down sidewise when not in use.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which like letters of reference indicate like parts, and in which- Figures 1 and 2 represent side elevations of my improved ,device. Fig. 3 represents a plan view of the same. Fig. 4 represents an elevation of the wire connecting the end members. Fig. 5 represents an elevation of one of the end members detached from the device. Fig. 6 represents a similar view of said member. Figs. 7 and 8 represent in side elevation handles of diflerent shape provided with my improved device; and Flg. 10 represents a diagrammatic side elevation of a modified form of myimproved device, formed of one piece of suitable material, preferably wire, the ends of which have formed thereon coils of varying diameters which form end members. Fig. 9 represents a plan view of the handle represented in Fig. 8.

In the drawings the device illustrated consists, essentially, of two end members (lettered a a) and a connecting means, (letteredb) The end members a. a consist, preferably, of wooden balls provided with a circumferential groove 0 and an aperture (1 for the reception of the connecting means I). The connecting means I) consist, preferably, of a wire the ends of which after having been passed through the aperture (Z and partly around the circum ferential groove 0 of the wooden balls or end members a assume the shape represented in Fig. 4 and lettered e.

The device illustrated in Fig. 2, in which wooden end members and a connecting-Wire are shown, is my preferred form and gives excellent results; but I wish it to be understood that I consider modifications such as illustrated in Fig. 1, in which case the connectingwire has cast to its ends metallic balls or balls of similar material, to come within the spirit and claims of my invention.

It is evident that my improved device is capable of being bent into any desired shape,

which when covered will result in handles f and 9, such as illustrated in Figs. 7 and 8. The shape of the ends 72. of the handle, commonly termed tips, in which the balls are located, is such as to freely permit the handle when secured to the bag, valise, or the like to be laid down sidewise.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- 1. An article of manufacture, comprising two apertured spherical end members, a flexible connection secured to said end members through the a ertures therein.

2. An artic e of manufacture, comprising two apertured and grooved spherical end members, a flexible connection passing through the apertures and secured in the grooves of said end members.

3. A device of the class described comprising spherical end members, grooves in said end members and means fitted into said grooves and connecting said end members capable of being bent into difierent shapes.

4. A device of the class described comprising grooved and apertured end members and ICC a wire passing through the apertures and secured in the grooves of the said grooved and apertured end members.

5. A device of the class described compris ing wooden grooved and apertured end members and a wire passing through the apertures and secured in the grooves of the said grooved and apertured end members.

6. A handle of the class described comprisinga central wire, end members secured to said Wire and a continuous covering over said wire and end members.

7. As an article of manufacture, a central stiffening-wire for bag-handles, provided with a pair of spherical members secured to the extremities thereof.

8. As an article of manufacture, a central stiffening-wire for bag-handles and a pair of circumferentially-grooved spherical members having apertures therethrough, the extremities of said wire passing through said apertures and bent around and fitted in said grooves.

9. As an article of manufacture, a central stiffening-Wire for bag-handles, provided with a pair of spherical end members secured to the extremities thereof, and a cover surrounding said wire and the spherical members.

10. A bag-handle stiffener, comprising a wire having forms secured to the ends of said wire, and a continuous one-piece covering inclosing said wire and forms.

This specification signed and witnessed this 27th day of February, 1905.

CHARLES KOPF.

Witnesses:

FREDK. O. FISCHER, JOHN T. KOPF 

